Re: Many GUI Toolkits, no "Best Option" [was wxWindows vs. FLTK]

[paul@...]

well, I've got a GPL project at

http://www.gime.org/twiki/bin/view/Gime/GraphicFrontend

which provides a very thin graphics layer written in C, and the
entire GUI stuff is implemented in pure Lua. It even comes with
a GUI editor to assemble widgets visually and later export them
into Lua scripts.

Unfortunately, I've got not enough time to polish it up (clean
up code mess, document it with tutorials, etc). It is still quite
a toy. But nevertheless, people interested in implementing Lua
GUI may take a look. The code base is small enough to get hands
on in an afternoon ;-)

Regards,
.paul.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Martin Spernau wrote:
> Enrico Colombini wrote:
> 
> >Anyway, I don't think there is currently much of a need for a specific Lua 
> >GUI; in Lua style, different GUI should be loadable as modules according 
> >to the user's taste or needs.
> > 
> >
> Well, yes modularity and choice is the idea.
> But still I'd very much like to see a Lua-native GUI based on dimple 
> primitives that can be 'displayed' by any number of toolkits.
> That way the 'description' could be general, and the 'look&feel' would 
> be handled by the GUI in question (native win32, MACOS, GTK, DHTML, 
> ncurses, whatever)
> 
> But I guess it is simply to much work to do for a practical project...
> 
> -Maritn
> 
>